[ft-devel] Re: Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

2008-08-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Rahul Bhalerao wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What gdm does it is only shows a language in the list if a) we have >> translations for it and b) we have fonts for it. For b), we basically >> ask fontconfig "do you have fonts for this langua

Re: [ft-devel] Re: Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

2008-08-13 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 18:45 +0530, Rahul Bhalerao wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What gdm does it is only shows a language in the list if a) we have > > translations for it and b) we have fonts for it. For b), we basically > > ask fontcon

[ft-devel] Re: Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

2008-08-13 Thread Rahul Bhalerao
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What gdm does it is only shows a language in the list if a) we have > translations for it and b) we have fonts for it. For b), we basically > ask fontconfig "do you have fonts for this language ?". It seems that > fontco

[ft-devel] Re: Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

2008-08-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Clasen wrote: > For b), we basically > ask fontconfig "do you have fonts for this language ?". It seems that > fontconfig says "no" if it doesn't know the language. It would be better > if fontconfig could say "I don't know" in that case...

[ft-devel] Re: Problem enabling new language on gdm language selection list

2008-08-12 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 19:17 +0530, Rahul Bhalerao wrote: > For adding a language on gdm's login screen, apart from having a > locale file, few translations and required fonts, it is required that > language is recognized by fontconfig. > To make a fontconfig recognize the language, a related lang.o